{"id":6406,"date":"2011-09-12T00:43:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T04:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=6406"},"modified":"2011-09-12T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T04:43:49","slug":"empire-state-of-mind-911-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/?p=6406","title":{"rendered":"Empire State of Mind 9\/11 commercial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tnlPX2_b4GA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"450\" height=\"277\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I saw this commercial aired several times during different 9\/11 specials, and I just fell in love with it! \u00a0It&#8217;s so very uplifting and filled with hope. \u00a0After some searching on the Web, I learned that Spike Lee contacted the PS22 Chorus to sing a &#8220;classic rendition of &#8220;Empire State of Mind&#8221; for a 9\/11 themed commercial he was directing. \u00a0The first time I heard that song was when JayZ opened for Coldplay at a concert in England. \u00a0I was wow&#8217;ed by that song, and it immediately made me feel proud for lots of reasons. \u00a0Hearing it sung by the beautiful voices in that choir and seeing the smiling faces of those kids, the faces of the appreciative firemen, and all of the NY imagery stopped me in my tracks. If you haven&#8217;t watched it, please do! \u00a0It is truly joyous and hope filled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this commercial aired several times during different 9\/11 specials, and I just fell in love with it! \u00a0It&#8217;s so very uplifting and filled with hope. \u00a0After some searching on the Web, I learned that Spike Lee contacted the PS22 Chorus to sing a &#8220;classic rendition of &#8220;Empire State of Mind&#8221; for a 9\/11 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6406"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6413,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6406\/revisions\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gloriahansen.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}